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Photos from Terezin, Czech Republic.
In the course of World War II the town was ill-fated as a “model” concentration camp for Jews from all over Europe; the Small fortress served as a prison for the Prague Gestapo. A Memorial to the victims of Nazism and the Holocaust has been established here as a memento of modern European history.
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Better known as Theresienstadt. City and fort were founded in 1780 by Emperor Joseph II, and named after his mother, Maria Theresia (hence MT on the flag). Nearly from the beginning the fort was used as a prison. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany in 1939 Terezin was turned into a ghetto, and one of the most terrible concentration camps,
Theresienstadt, was erected in the “Old Fortress”. The National Cemetery of Terezín with its white cross bears eloquent testimony to the crimes that were committed here.taken from crwflags
Entrance to the concentration camp
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